Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal
Gore Vidalwas an American writerand a public intellectual known for his patrician manner, epigrammatic wit, and polished style of writing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth3 October 1925
CityWest Point, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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What the Kinseyites and I had in common so long ago was the knowledge that homosexual and heterosexual behavior are natural to all mammals, and that what differs from individual to individual is the balance between these two complementary but not necessarily conflicted drives.
There is a terrible garrulousness in most American writing, legacy of the old Frontier.
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Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to 'serious' drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist.
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.